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DIY Shabby Chic Rosette Lampshade

Well, for the past year I have been dying to make one for our living room & finally got around to doing it! After going back to look at my last DIY tutorial on this lamp shade (that was tremendously popular), I realized that a few little details were missing... so here is a NEW full tutorial with step by step instructions

STEP #3 & #4:
Seperate and start to tear your fabric by holding the larger portion of the fabric with your left hand and ripping the strip with your right hand. When you cut fabric lengthwise, it naturally tears into a straight line since it is going with the seams/ thread.

STEP #5:
Tear all of the fabric into strips until you end up with a large pile like this

STEP #6:
Take an individual strip of fabric and ball up one end of the fabric by pinching the fabric in between your thumb and index finger, then wrap the strip of fabric around it. You will start to get a small rosette look as you keep pinching the fabric and twisting it around itself (like a cinnamon bun). Once you have the start to your rosette, make a small dab of hot glue and place the fabric over it.

STEP #7:

After you have twisted the beginning of your strip of fabric, place it on a table, with your hands on either end of the strip. With your left finger, hold the end of the left side of the strip down. With your right hand, wrap the remainder of the strip of fabric around the center starting point (while keeping it twisted). This should create a cinnamon bun effect. To hold the flower securely together, place dots of glue using a hot glue gun every so often while assembling it together.

TIP: To create various sizes of roses, take your torn strips and cut them to different lengths.

STEP #8:
Keep twisting the fabric, you will use the whole length of the fabric strip.
Your rosette will end up looking like this. Once you come to the end of the fabric, glue the excess amount onto the back of the rose, holding it all together & giving it a more finished look

STEP #9:
Make A LOT of rosettes! You will end up needing approx 50 to cover a medium size shade, and over 70 to cover a large size shade.
Then, start hot gluing them into your shade. Tip: use a lot of hot glue!

I am not going to lie, this project is VERY TIME CONSUMING!

One lampshade of this size takes approx. 5 straight hours to finish & if you happen to have little ones running all over the house... well, I would prepare yourself to spend a few days on this project!

But once it is finished, it is SO worth all of the work that went into it!
Happy crafting!

I saw the original post the day before you took it down. I freaked out for a little bit, because even though I remembered the basic steps, I couldn't remember all of it. You have no idea how happy I am to see this with even more in-depth directions! I have some fabric on its way over here, so I can make one for my soon-to-be daughter's nursery! Love it so much—thank you!!!

Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!!! Can I ask where you purchased your pleaty/gauze-like fabric?I'll be working on this on my next 3-day weekend off of work and I have the perfect lamp base for it. This is so incredibly gorgeous and I'm excited to make one of my own!!!

LOVE this! It is so cute and go so well with just about any decor! I blog over at http://www.2crafty4myskirt.blogspot.com/ Every Friday I feature a fellow crafter. I would love to feature you and this project in an upcoming Friday. If you are interested please let me know toocraftyformyskirt@hotmail.com

The lamp is crazy beautiful! Next time I go to IKEA I need to buy some spare lampshades. I saw a similar one the other day in one of the lighting stores and thought it would be a great idea for diy :) great job Jenny

Thank you very much for this wonderful tutorial. I really have 2 left hands when it comes to diy's. And i'm currently working on this one and it's turning out amazing, everyone loves it. (I gave them you're link ;)) So thank you very much for sharing this with us! xoxo

Thanks for sharing all these fantastic ideas on how to make a beautiful custom lampshade. I am actually planning to do some variations with my old lampshade and this post could help me so much in making it more beautiful. I love to use pastel-colored fabric for a cool effect. Learn about OnlyCubes Water Proof Light Cube

Absolutely love this! I've been tearing fabric while watching tv-series two evenings in a row now, and today I started twirling :) You mentioned it was time consuming, but you forgot to mention all the times you'll burn yourself on the glue :P Anyways: thanks for the tutorial, as I said I really love it!

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